Stress Balancing · Core-Wisdom Leadership · Business Productivity · Sports Excellence · Team Mindfulness · Personal Enrichment & Spiritual Growth
My workshops, presentations, and trainings all involve a wide range of mindful, playful, energizing, and quieting behavioral techniques from the ancient science of applied Zen meditation and the intelligent quantum stillness of core-Self mindfulness.
Individuals learn skillful ways to nourish calm presence, de-stress, generate vitality, access intuition, awaken insight, restore balance, rejuvenate themselves, clarify relationships, cherish accountability, and deepen felt intimacy with the original wisdom, integrity, and wholeness of their body, mind, & spirit.
Dolphin Quest — Hawaiʻi
"Your teaching, counsel, and time with us was like a flower lei of wonderful moments threaded together. You have opened doors, front and back, in our minds and hearts."
— Jeff Jouett, CEO, Dolphin Quest / Quest Global Management
Andrew Shugyo Daijo Bonnici, Ph.D. is a Doctor of Humanistic Depth Psychology and a Master Zen Teacher and Counselor. He has been married for 54 years to his wife Diana. They have two grown sons, a daughter-in-heart, and four grandchildren. Currently, Dr. Bonnici lives on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi with his whole family.
There, he continues to teach and counsel locally while guiding two Zen meditation communities online. He also publishes internationally, teaches on a variety of social media platforms, and provides video counseling and consultation globally.
Full BiographyEach workshop is fully customized to meet the unique needs of your group or organization — personal growth, wellness, creativity, stress balancing, business productivity, sports performance, spiritual development, or health care.
PowerPoint Presentation & Bodymind Skills Training: Applying Meditation, Mindfulness, and Ki Breathing to Personal Health, Longevity, Productivity, Interpersonal Relationships, and Personality Refinement.
Being the Body of Original Meditation: A Workshop Adventure in Self-care, Insight, Compassion, Bodymind Intimacy, Healing, Interpersonal Empathy, and Self-Transformation.
Living the Art of Japanese Calligraphy: Beginner's Mind, Self-Acceptance, Creativity, Intuition, Bodily Ease, Confidence, and the Meditative Way of Bamboo Brushwork.
Engaging Work as a Dynamic Meditation Practice: Optimum Wellness, Peak Performance, Spiritual Insight, Interpersonal Synergy, & Creative Excellence in the Working Environment.
Practicing Sports as Embodied Meditation: Concentration, Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, Ki-Breathing, Somatic Awareness, Effortlessness, Non-Thinking, and Letting Go.
A Zen Meditation Intensive: Seated Stillness, Silent Presence, Playful Body, Joyful Spirit, Clear Mind, & Sincere Heart.
Only Moment Body, Dynamic Ki Breathing, Sensory Anchoring, and Alert Inner Wakefulness: Balancing the Autonomic Nervous System Amidst the Stress and Tension of Daily Life.
Gentling the Thinking Mind and Becoming this Only Moment Body: Tapping into our Somatic Intelligence for Living with Intuition, Insight, Wisdom, and Enlightenment.
Practicing and Nurturing the Way of a "Fresh Spirit": Strategies for Increasing Creativity, Wonder, Openness, Spontaneity, and Vital Energy in Our Daily Life and Relationships.
Applied Meditation Therapy® for Lawyers: Applying Meditation Skills with the Way of Bushido (the Warrior's Path) — Decisive Judgement, Embodied Awareness, Grounded Integrity, and the Ability to Respond with Courage, Clarity, and Wholeheartedness within the Courtroom and Everyday Life.
The Dolphin Quest worldwide managerial team workshop focused on stress management, calm presence, immunity, clear thinking, intuition, creativity, insight, personal growth, team synergy, productivity, and peak performance.
Your teaching, counsel, and time with us was like a flower lei of wonderful moments threaded together. You have opened doors, front and back, in our minds and hearts. I am personally enriched by your teachings and your friendship. Your meditation workshop and the practice sessions to help us understand and actualize the insights and to learn and gain confidence in the resource of our own peace and stillness, were an extraordinary professional development and personal development experience for our leadership team. It was a deeply unifying time together — a team building at a very fundamental level. We got to know ourselves and each other better, and our approach to our work and to life is profoundly changed for the better. We talk about the experience often. Our corporate vocabulary is enriched. We remind each other to take a breath, to refresh our beginner's mind, to return to our core, to be open to each moment. We are more focused, more creative, more productive, confident, humble and honest as a team and individually.
Dr. Andrew and Sensei Tony really connected with our group and taught us techniques for staying focused and present in a world of multi-tasking and distractions. The Applied Meditation Therapy workshop was the perfect complement to our company's annual Strategic Summit. The daily meditation sessions energized our team and allowed us to be even more productive.
Thank you again for a wonderful introduction to Applied Meditation Therapy. I have practiced a little each day and find it to be calming and centering. We all appreciate your teachings. Both you and Tony were very informative and wonderful models of the practice of meditation. You were very inspiring.
Working with Dr. Andrew Shugyo Bonnici and his son Sensei Tony was one of the highlights of our week-long company Strategic Summit. Learning new skills on stress relief through meditation was fun, easy to learn, exciting to practice and immediately implemented into our company culture. Andrew's professionalism was top notch and his ability to customize his program, to inject humor into each day and to make his teachings seem grounded and useable in daily life were very impressive. We would recommend Andrew for any group or individual that wants to improve their life by lowering stress, putting things into perspective and enjoying every experience in life as it happens.
Thank you Dr. Andrew for showing us how to deepen our connection within ourselves and with each other.
This was my first experience with meditation and it was life changing.
Each workshop training, instructional class, or educational presentation is designed and orchestrated to meet the unique needs of each participating group or organization — whether for personal growth, wellness, creativity, stress balancing, business productivity, sports performance, spiritual development, or health care.
Please contact Dr. Bonnici regarding your needs. You can call his office, send an email, or fill out the request form below. He will be happy to answer any questions, discuss fees, and clarify any details regarding his services.
Dr. Bonnici also offers individual and couples counseling worldwide via video session.